The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-17

For the lawyer gets his wealth from people who
commonly accounted wise, while the gam
who are universally conceded to be fools, and in
curing folly hold myself to be the moral super
Tor of him who discourages wisdom"
ROBERT BROWNING does not look like poet.
and Is hardly intellectual in appearance. He is
dapper little man-very careful about his
dress One would not think, to look at him,
that he had written lines so full of thought that
no one has ever been able to explain their
meaning
ACCORDING to the Rev. Dr. Frank L. Norton,
of Lynn, Mass, the converted heather give
much more literally to missionary objects than
home Christians. And so he suggests the fol-
lowing paraphrase of the familiar missionary
hymn very apropos:
1.-THE heather in his blindness
Bows down TO wood and stone,
The Christian in his wisdom
Bows down to gold alone"
JOAQUIN MILLER has become to some extent
rec onciled to his daughter Maud, who incurred
his anger by marrying Loudon S. Mccormack,
the actor Mrs Mccormack and her father now
correspond regularly. She is a tall, slender
woman and resembles her father in appearance.
She was his favorite child and the only one of
his offspring to whom he gave the advantage of
an education. She anu her husband have not
prospered on the stage, and are now in St Louis
out of engagements.
Mr.. MURAYAMA is the leading journalist of
Japan Nine years ago he started the morning
daily known the Asahi Shimbun, or Rising
Sun News. at Osaka, on the east coast of apan.
The paper has circulation of $4,000
copies. III. o. Kawa. the leading manufacturer
of white paper in the Japanese empire. is now.
in this country empowered by Murayama to
purchase the latest improved web perfecting
press for the Rising Sun News. The News is
partially illustrated paper and sells for one sen
copy, or four ffths of an American cent.
'.LECTovER" is the name of new and MUIR
nit ofw in was
covered by Russian engineer and is as strong
as pyroxyline and ten times cheaper than salt
petrs powder 1t possesses great superiority
over all explosives Of the dynamite class by the
fact that when fired its force does not strike
downward. but entirely forward 1t can be
used, it is said, for all purposes to which ordi-
nary gunpowder is now applied without any
damage to the weapon discharged The Minis
ter Of War is having a special factory built for
its manufacture. The composition is secret
TT is announced that Governor Waterman, of
California, has restored Mr.. c. Mel. Stoneman,
son of Ex-Governor SLOVENIAN, to his old place
as engineer of the State printing office, from
which he some time ago removed Ex-Gov.
SLOVENIAN, says The Sacramento Bee took his
sons dismissal much to heart His retention
was the only favor he had asked of the new ad-
ministration. and that was ruthlessv denied.
To a reporter the Governor said shortly after
his sons discharge that his retention was of par
ticular interest to him, since the young man
used to take reat pleasure in the care of his
engine, and prided it almost a mother would
a child ut was not for the salary that cared
to have him retained" said General SLOVENIAN,
feelinely. but because the boy loved the
machine"
EMPRESS EUGENIE's arrival a visit to
Queen Victoria in Scotland is always hailed a
god-send by the court-in waiting. for, though
the distinguished widow of Napoleon III can
keep a great lady in good humor by endless
lamentations over past bereavements. she also
makes herself supremacy agreeably TO everyone
else and when she dimes at the castle the table
talk takes a new and vastly more lively charac-
ter. With her come conversable. we'll bred
French ladies and gentlemen, and the chastity
atmosphere of Presbyterian solemniry is dis
turbed a with fresh breezes from abroad. Thus
all faces brRhtened at Eueenie's appearance in
the neigh borhood, aud it is confidently reported
that when il became known that the Empress
and her suite would possibly make quite
heightened stay at Abereeldie. the youngest
iady-in- waiting executed jig in the privacy of
her own bedroom and two Of the equerries
danced hornpipe in a remote coruer.